Improvement in hame-strap loops



A. ABLEITER. Hame-Strap Loops.

Patented March 5, 1878.

INVENTOB M fliforney.

NJHERS. PHOTO-LITEDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON D C.

' of, and in which- FATEN'I OFFICE.

LBERT Antenna, or BOSGOBEL, WISCONSIN.

; lMPROVEMENT IN HAME-STRAP LOOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 200,886, dated March 5,1878; application filed August 7, 1877.

my invention appertains to make and use the said improvements, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part here- 1 Figure 1'is a rear elevation of a hame embodying my invention, Fig. 2, a likerepresentation enlarged, and Fig. 3 a perspective of the metallic partsof the loop.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts. My invention relates tothe means employed to connect to each other the upper ends of the hame.

In the drawing, A A represent the curved parts of the hame, and to whichthe tracerings and other parts are applied. B B are staples near theupper ends of the parts A A. G is a metallic piece, the outer end ofwhich, a, is adapted to pass freely through any of the staples BB. 7 r

The end a is, by preference, flattened on its inner face, so as to lieclosely against the outer face of the part A when the piece 0 isinserted into a'staple, B. The end a is also provided with a headed pin,at, extending from its extreme end, as represented in Fig. 3.

On the opposite end of the part O is the loop 1), arranged horizontally,and adapted to receive the fastening-strap D. The loop 12 is parallel tothe end or arnra, and sufficiently distant therefrom to allow thehame-stick to pass freely between these parts;

That part of the piece 0 whichflconnects the end or arm a and the loopbis, by preference, so bent or inclined that the position of the loop bwill; be alittle higher than the staple B, throughwhich the end or arm ais passed when the part 0 is applied to the hame, as represented inFigs. 1 and. 2. 7 V

O is the remaining part of the fastening device. The outer end of thepart 0 has therein an opening, c, somewhat smaller than the head of thepin a, but this opening is elongated, as shown at 0" to receive the headwhen the part 0 is arranged in the position indicated by the dottedlines in Fig. 3. The inner end of the part G terminates in a loop, I),in all respects like the loop I).

The form of the part 0 is such, in other re- 7 will'hold the loops 1)and b together.

The fastening I) may consist of a single strap and buckle, in connectionwith loops d d; but a strap differently arranged will perform the sameservice; and I do not, therefore, here intend to restrict myself to theparticular arrangement shown, although I deem that to bepreferable toany with which 1 am acquainted. Neither do I here intend to limit myselfto the precise means herein shown and described for locking together theouter ends of the parts 0 and G, as the same result may be produced bymeans somewhat different.

The chief objects of my invention are to furnish a removable metallicloop which may be appliedto any hightop hame, and which will enable thestrap D to be applied without being twisted.

It will be perceived from the foregoing description, and from referenceto the drawing, that I accomplish these objects by making in two parts,detachably connected to each other and the hame, the loops which receivethe strap D.

It will also be perceived that the loops 1) b may be adjusted on thehame so as to adapt the latter to collars varying from each other insize, even though the said loops are not arranged horizontally toprevent the twisting of the strap D.

These looped metallic pieces may be cheaply made, and, when construct-edsubstantially as described, are ready for the use for which they withmeans for detachably connecting each to are intended. the other,substantially as and for the pur-.

Having thus described my invention, what poses specified.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- ALBERT ABLEITER.

tersPatent, is Witnesses:

A removable hame-strap loop consisting of F. F. WARNER, the loopedmetallic pieces 0 and 0', provided 0. H. ALLEN.

